Options 1 and 2 both seem legit. Or you can rule that a battlefield counts as a workshop for him for the purposes of Bonefeel, so it works similarly to Battlefield Instincts.

Or having all his gun cases open and cleaning them counts as a workshop. Remember, you're a fan of his character. Either way, it's not out of line to expect him to spend an improvement on it.

For my money, their intelligence should probably come from consciousnesses that had been trapped in the maelstrom that the savvy head can figure out a way to "download" into the robots. Of course that depends on your setting, your maelstrom, and what the Savvyhead comes up with on their own. I'm always looking for ways to pull the maelstrom into the real world though.

Hey all,

I had a pretty fun moment in a recent game and I thought I'd share.

Our Angel, Jane, has an infirmary. She's got Partridge there under constant surveillance for 36 hours, and she wants to start a project. She wants to push Partridge to the brink of death to better understand its relationship to the Maelstrom and her Touched by Death move. So I give her a choice from the workspace rules. "OK, to do it you're going to need help from The Teacher" and I'm referring to our Hocus who she trusts not at all. "OR, it would mean exposing yourself to serious danger." She picks the danger, of course.

Her weird is at -1 so activate her stuff's downside and tell her to open her brain to the maelstrom. Naturally she blows the roll. In the maelstrom, I tell her she sees a bubbling whirlpool and in it are the souls of people she's lost. Partridge is circling down into the whirlpool. I give her an opportunity with a cost and tell her she has a chance to save him, startle his consciousness before he's consumed, but she has to mind her step because that whirlpool has hands coming out and grabbing at the air.

So Jane runs to tackle Partridge away from his imminent demise and hits her act under fire with a 9. So close. I give her an ugly choice. I tell her she has a split second to decide whether to follow through or let him perish.  If she jumps over that pool, though, one of those hands will grab her for sure. She chooses to save him. She feels a cold hand on her ankle but she crashes into Partridge and the two of them startle awake.

Partridge cries and turns away saying she should have let him die because he's emo like that. Then Jane hears a voice chime in, one she recognizes. "One of those lost souls boosted a ride out. They're stuck inside your head with you." I ask whose voice it is and Jane says it's Pierre, her former traveling companion. The voice in her head is a permanent addition, so I give her the move Norman from the faceless book, except it's Pierre talking, of course, instead of a mask.

Just a fun example of letting the game's cause and effect drive the fiction. This was actually from our first session. I had no idea any of that was going to happen, it just snowballed.

I think my brain might melt out of sheer excitement. I looked over everything available from the patreon. I have thoughts, but since I am too cheap to voice them in the proper forum and am just doing the $1 pledge, I will keep them to myself.

Think of the angel's infirmary move as "when you take this move, then from now on you get an infirmary etc etc" It still fits the format, the trigger is just not tied to a specific event in the fiction. Rather, a specific event at the table that has a permanent effect on the fiction, and constricts what you say about that character and his/her situation from there out.

I think all the moves follow that format, they just aren't always worded as such because it could get clunky. If you look at the moves, the structure is there. Remember, the moves are both prescriptive and descriptive. Descriptive: I've done something that triggers the move, so I'm doing it. Prescriptive: I'm doing the move, so what am I doing in the fiction that counts as the move?

Hey all.

I'm between games currently but found myself idly pondering about workspaces. The Driver and the Angel both can gain a workspace as an improvement, maybe other characters. So I was wondering, how much can a character who isn't a Savvy Head do with their workspace? Theoretically, right, adding new parts to a workspace is just a project in the workspace. So where would you draw the line, as an MC, as to what they could do there, in the interest of preserving the uniqueness of the Savvy Head book? Or would you draw a line?

I know the answer, of course, is derived mostly from the fiction. Its not my job as MC to defend the integrity of the Savvy Head playbook or limit a character's potential. However, it is my job to make the world seem real.

Just food for thought, wondering if anyone has examples from play or thought to share.

Hoarder>Hocus.
This was a direction I had hoped to take a character but the game sort of died out before i got the chance. Basically, i was thinking a group of NPCs would discover the hoard and vaguely be able to hear its voice the way the Hoarder could. So they take control of it (the hoard was in a big U-Haul trailer). The Hoarder becomes a prophet, being able to hear the Hoard most clearly, though no longer directly in its employ. Now the Cult has power over the character instead: Boom, Hocus!

Savvy Head>Hoarder or vice versa
Both are characters that have a ton of junk lying around: Question is, what do they do with it?

Savvy Head>Hard Holder
When you build your workspace into a fortress, you're bound to attract a crowd of hopeless citizens of the apocalypse

Hey All,

Long story short, the death of our thief led to a player spontaneously taking up a frogman who had happened to be on their side of the battle. He's hoping to play the character going forward, and I feel it fits the fiction, so I'm working with him to create some custom moves for a frogman character. Here's what I came up with:

Frogman

You are amphibious. You move naturally in the water and can breathe indefinitely. However, when traveling in lands sparse of bodies of water, you consume double rations.

Fighter or Thief: when you use your impressive jumping range to defy danger, take +1. (this is a straight hack of the halfling fighter's circumstantial bonus)
Cleric: Your natural body chemistry makes you an adept healer. When you heal somebody, add 2 to the total damage healed.


Frogman Names:

Brawbitt, Bwag, Yebb, Croek, gGuirp

Hop, Skipper, Webster, Tad, Warts